Global protection centre opened in New York |
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A new Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has been opened in New York, with the aim of serving as "a catalyst for moving the responsibility to protect from principle to practice".
An initiative of several global NGOs - International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, Institute for Global Policy, Oxfam International and Refugees International - the centre will seek to ensure the global application of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle adopted unanimously at the 2005 World Summit.
The R2P agreement states that the international community has a duty to protect populations from human-made catastrophes where the state fails to do so through inability or ill-will.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that the responsibility to protect "is a solemn commitment by the international community" which "expresses a profound moral imperative in today's world".
Mr Ban said he warmly welcomed the centre and that it held "great promise in supporting the endeavours of the international community to take the principle of the responsibility to protect from concept to actuality, from word to deed".
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